Cultural Mosaic Quotes

#1. Culture is the celebration of diversity. Let us therefore not deny our origin; but instead celebrate ours as a cultural mosaic not a tower of Babel , but a power of Babel

Ali A. Mazrui

#2. There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.

Taslima Nasrin

#3. Memory in its ordinary way summoned harvested fields, and haycocks and autumn hedges, the first of the fuchsia, the last of the wild sweetpea. It brought the lowing of cattle, old donkeys resting, scampering dogs, and days and places.

William Trevor

#4. America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

Virginia Postrel

#5. Madness is a place where I hide from those who would silence me.

Shannon Mayer

#6. Merchants, conquerors and prophets were the first people who managed to transcend the binary evolutionary division, 'us vs them', and to foresee the potential unity of humankind.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. I need to be broken apart and put back into a different shape by that merging of things human and divine, which is really screwing up and receiving grace and love and forgiveness rather than receiving what I really deserve. I

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#8. For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.

Ron Ben-Israel

#9. We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

John Randolph Of Roanoke

#10. Guys are faster, they're bigger and they're stronger. I think that's probably the main thing. And that's not just in football, I think it's in every sport.

Andre Reed

#11. Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs.

Paul Harris

#12. He met her eyes in the mirror. "I thought you weren't talking to me ever again."
"I'm not," she said ... "I'm talking to myself while you eavesdrop.

Suzanne Brockmann

#13. The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

Terence McKenna

#14. Very little of what he learned of people's actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in this.

David Anthony Durham